My Oldest Coin EVER! - UPDATED

[CRUSADER]

I did some research some time ago & asked my newbie friend to look into it. He came back with permission & today told me the Wheat had been harvested. He could not make it, but Dad & I went out for 2 hours.

We had never done this field, so we tracked down the lead After finding it, we just did the tracks as the stubble was terrible. Dad had 3 roman coins before I had another find of a lifetime!

Celtic Gold Stater:
South Ferriby Type 45-10BC - My oldest coin (Dad has one Roman Silver from 48BC), so not the teams oldest

Horse with six sided star.
Obverse die of Apollo which has been used until completely obliterated, & the books quote 'some show almost plain obverse' - which this is!

3rd Gold Coin of the Year - Words are now difficult to explain the year I'm having

Also a Todur Book Clasp
1723 Irish Halfpenny - looks good when wet, can read it all - not had this date
4 Roman Coins
Bronze Slag
Very Large Victorian Fire surround - I think Big enough to think the site has not been hit to hard, if at all!

 

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[ModernMiner]

Re: My Oldest Coin EVER!

I don't know what to say!

I can't think of anything nice though

Classic!!!

Cru,
This is your week on finds. Congrats to you on another fantastic coin. You are the man!!!!
-MM-

 

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[randall61]

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awesome ...what a find.....i vote banner

 

[Don in SJ]

Re: My Oldest Coin EVER!

Cru, nothing left to say but Congratulations on another dream find!!!

Don

 

[PANNONIAN]

Re: My Oldest Coin EVER!

Banner find again Crusader! Well done! Pannonian

 

[spartacus53]

Re: My Oldest Coin EVER!

WTG on your oldest coin. Not to bust you bubble, but we would have the same finds if we were settled centuries earlier.

 

[robfinds]

Re: My Oldest Coin EVER!

No stopping you Cru at the moment . That South Ferriby uniface stater as travelled some distance to turn up in Essex.

 

[silvercop]

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[BuckleBoy]

Re: My Oldest Coin EVER!

Well, once you're on top of the world where else will you go?


Unbelievable.


Send the next gold my way, if it's one of those "new" 18th or 19th c. ones.

I will never sell, but the funny thing is, this coin is worth a similar amount as the last Georgian one

I wasn't asking to buy. I want you to send the next one telepathically to Kentucky underneath my searchcoil.


So I guess you've had too many Celtic Gold Staters on the banner lately. Maybe the mods are bored with having them up there?

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATED:

Thanks for details of the Corieltavian stater. It's a plated contemporary forgery rather than a genuine example of VA 811-3, hence the low weight and bronze core showing through; the genuine ones of this type are usually around 5.5g. There are six gold examples of this type in the online Index; from memory there are a handful of plated copies known and a few more genuine coins that aren't on the internet.

Above is the details of my 'fake' Celtic Coin. Its now our first fake of this period, & actually makes it rarer than the real thing. So I'm happy to ponder why & under what circumstances it ended up in this field. The puzzell will continue as we discover more stuff. 8)

 

[Harry_Morant]

A sweet find regardless - I wonder what the penalty for making forgerys was back in those days - thrown to wild beasts?

 

[CRUSADER]

A sweet find regardless - I wonder what the penalty for making forgerys was back in those days - thrown to wild beasts?

Sounds Roman, this was pre-Roman. Thrown to the bog

 

[Silver Searcher]

UPDATED:

Thanks for details of the Corieltavian stater. It's a plated contemporary forgery rather than a genuine example of VA 811-3, hence the low weight and bronze core showing through; the genuine ones of this type are usually around 5.5g. There are six gold examples of this type in the online Index; from memory there are a handful of plated copies known and a few more genuine coins that aren't on the internet.

Above is the details of my 'fake' Celtic Coin. Its now our first fake of this period, & actually makes it rarer than the real thing. So I'm happy to ponder why & under what circumstances it ended up in this field. The puzzell will continue as we discover more stuff. 8)

Can't see what's rare about it being plated there are a least six on UKFD base, and I have seen quite a few on ebay recently

SS.

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATED:

Thanks for details of the Corieltavian stater. It's a plated contemporary forgery rather than a genuine example of VA 811-3, hence the low weight and bronze core showing through; the genuine ones of this type are usually around 5.5g. There are six gold examples of this type in the online Index; from memory there are a handful of plated copies known and a few more genuine coins that aren't on the internet.

Above is the details of my 'fake' Celtic Coin. Its now our first fake of this period, & actually makes it rarer than the real thing. So I'm happy to ponder why & under what circumstances it ended up in this field. The puzzell will continue as we discover more stuff. 8)

Can't see what's rare about it being plated there are a least six on UKFD base, and I have seen quite a few on ebay recently

SS.

Rarer than the real thing. (doesn't make it worth much)

 

[Silver Searcher]

UPDATED:

Thanks for details of the Corieltavian stater. It's a plated contemporary forgery rather than a genuine example of VA 811-3, hence the low weight and bronze core showing through; the genuine ones of this type are usually around 5.5g. There are six gold examples of this type in the online Index; from memory there are a handful of plated copies known and a few more genuine coins that aren't on the internet.

Above is the details of my 'fake' Celtic Coin. Its now our first fake of this period, & actually makes it rarer than the real thing. So I'm happy to ponder why & under what circumstances it ended up in this field. The puzzell will continue as we discover more stuff. 8)

Can't see what's rare about it being plated there are a least six on UKFD base, and I have seen quite a few on ebay recently

SS.

Rarer than the real thing. (doesn't make it worth much)

It's just a way of scrimping on a valuable commodity, it's been done right through the ages

SS.

 

[yo6oej]

Unbelievable